FRENCH MILITARY FORCE. FROM the Report of the Minister of War to the King, upon the recruiting of the Army, it appears, that the whole effective force of the French Military Establishment, Officers and privates, for the year 1821, is as follows: ACCORDING to the report which his Excellency the Minister of Marine presented to the Chamber in the session of 1820, it appears that 76 vessels were equipped at the commencement of the year, and distributed among the stations which the interest of commerce, the repression of the slave trade, and of contraband, render necessary to be occupied at the Antilles, in the Gulf of Mexico, at Cayenne, at Newfoundland, on the coast of Africa, at the Isle of Bourbon, in the Levant, and the Mediterranean. These 76 vessels, manned by 10,000 mariners, and armed with 1,029 cannons, are composed of 3 ships of the line, 11 frigates, 6 corvettes, 9 brigs, 13 galliots, 3 bombs, 7 sloops, 21 luggers, and 3 transports. According to this statement the maritime power of France is represented in the four quarters of the world by 38 armed ships, of which 29 are capable of making themselves respected. |